The influence between men and environment in Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn: Based on Albert Bandura’s Reciprocal theory

ABSTRACT

Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. Fiction is a work of the imagination or invention, which contrasts with non-fiction (which is usually thought to be based on facts). Written works like novels, short stories, plays, and poems are fictional.

Related to the explanation above, it was interesting to conduct a psychological analysis entitled” The Influence between Men and Environment in Mark Twain’s “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” (Based on Albert Bandura’s reciprocal theory)”. In this thesis, the researcher wants to apply psychological analysis as the approach of the analysis on novel “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”. The statement of the problems are the first one is how does Huck’s behavior effect his environment, the second how is the influence of environment to Huck’s behavior, and the last one how is the interrelation between his environment and Huck viewed by reciprocal theory.The objectives of the research are: finding out the how Huck's behavior effects his environment, in addition the study goes point out how is the influence of environment to Huck's behavior viewed by reciprocal theory.

The researcher observed by theory of behavior by Albert Bandura. The theory is suitable to be used in this research, because this research will describe psychological the influence of behavior “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”. The contains of novel is related much with psychological approach, Huck as the main character is someone who influence to his environment and his close friend Tom sawyer influence to Huck behavior by Albert Bandura's theory.

The methodologically, researcher applies psychological approach to deal with the data, the approach is to find out the aspect of behavior influence in the novel “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and elaborate the psychological theory which is Albert Bandura of reciprocal theory. As the result in the research are the theory finds some proves about whether Huck as the main character includes in the reciprocal or not, and that is true that some influence which are had by Huckleberry Finn could be analyzed by it. We can find these prove in the “find and discussion”.